[SQueeeeeL]

You may think it's worth paying for, but your average consume will not. It makes sense from a consumer point of view, how am I to know if this "superior" experience is worth my money if I haven't tried it. How do I know it will stay that way, lots of magazines and newspapers quality tanked after they got high subscription numbers.

[sebastos]

"Did you see that new Thai joint opened up down the street? I heard it was pretty good. Want to try it out?"

"And just how are we to know for _sure_ that this trumped up restaurant is truly superior?"

In other words, this is how capitalism works. Businesses and vendors make value propositions, then people take chances on them. It works for every single other class of good, but for some reason the big brains that run the internet can't wrap their head around how it would work for them.

Some people have understood this, and they're making a killing from it. For instance, which do you watch more of, HBO, Hulu, Prime and Netflix or broadcast TV? Tons and tons of people are happy to shell out cash for products they consider worth it.

Newspapers and magazines have tried to convince us that these asshole millenials refuse to pay for things anymore, but what they mean is they refuse to pay for shitty things. They're actually perfectly happy to OVERpay for things they like. It just turns out newspapers and magazines aren't, you know, worth that much.

[awad]

Forget the average consumer...it's pretty much guaranteed there will be an outline.com link posted on any paywalled article on HN (along with the usual paywall complaint) and this crowd seems to fancy itself above the average consumer.